China is poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data
China poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data for the first time a symbolic first step as people become digitised Read more…
China poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data for the first time a symbolic first step as people become digitised Read more…
Effective security protects personal data and takes the risk out of an individual’s behaviour, while not making it onerous. Read more…
An open market and individual app developers will give more freedom to consumers and how they want to use their own personal data. Read more…
Indonesia aims to bring in a new law to protect personal data by next year as it follows in the footsteps of Southeast Asian neighbours such as Singapore. Read more…
Millions of people are gambling with their personal data by blindly accessing fake wifi hotspots, according to a poll. Read more…
The GSMA wants telcos to seriously integrate SDGs into their business models. What could go wrong? Well, a lot actually … Read more…
Telcos are monetizing location-based services partly by selling geolocation data to third parties. But are they doing enough to prevent it from being misused? Read more…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has drawn up draft legislation aimed at stopping leaks of personal information from state agencies, a step that follows publication of details of Russians allegedly involved in clandestine intelligence operations abroad. Read more…
In his keynote address at Digital Transformation Asia 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s Minister of Communications and Multimedia Gobind Singh Deo announced an open data exchange platform for the country. Could this signal the re-emergence Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner will launch a compliance investigation into Cathay Pacific Airways over a data breach involving 9.4 million passengers, saying the carrier may have violated privacy rules. The airline Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has launched a campaign to persuade governments, companies and individuals to sign a “Contract for the Web” set of principles designed to defend a Read more…
Data mass is beginning to exhibit gravitational properties – it’s getting heavy – and eventually it will be too big to move. How will networks handle this? And what does it mean for digital identity, Read more…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Thousands of wealthy Moscow residents who subscribed to regional internet provider Akado Telecom have had personal data including names, home addresses and mobile numbers posted online. People affected by the high-profile data Read more…
One result of getting your online credentials stolen may be fraudulent phishing emails pretending to be from a company you do business with. There are two ways said business can mitigate that: encrypt all their Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares of Cathay Pacific Airways slid nearly 7% to a nine-year low on Thursday after it said data of about 9.4 million passengers of Cathay and its unit, Hong Kong Dragon Read more…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday said customer data was being “weaponized with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit and called for a federal privacy law in the United States. Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government on Monday told US technology firm Facebook to better protect its users’ personal data following lapses this year affecting tens of millions of people globally. The government asked the world’s Read more…
(Reuters) – Facebook has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Read more…
(Reuters) – Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its Read more…
(Reuters) – Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing on Monday that private profile data of at least 500,000 users may Read more…
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